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Though the city frequently witnesses protests and court
battles between school managements and parents over the issue of excess
fee and other instances of violation of Right to Education Act (RTE),
2009, none of them had been reported to the National Commission for
Protection of Child Right’s RTE Division.

According
to NCPCR's State representative for RTE Henri Tiphagne, he had not
received any complaints of violation of RTE from Coimbatore district so
far. Mr. Tiphagne had invited complaints on cases of violation of RTE
from parents across the State. He had asked parents to report violation
of Government norms on collection of school fees by Government,
Government-aided or private schools. Mr. Tiphagne said that for the
period January-June 2012, his office had received 44 complaints directly
from parents across the State. “We also
suo
motu take up cases reported in the media and intervene in our capacity.
We have taken up 77 cases in the State for the period May-July 2012, he
said.

The NCPCR intervened in cases concerning
corporal punishment at schools in Madurai and Tirunelveli, refusal of
school managements to issue receipts for the school fees paid in
Kanyakumari district and denial of permission to students to write the
annual examinations in Erode, he said.

Other cases
reported to the State Representative include employment of students of
the Municipal Union School in Theni to remove sewage water, intimidation
of students, and poor infrastructure in schools. Chairman of Students
Welfare Association of Parents (SWAP), Coimbatore, R. Manimohan, said in
most of the cases, the parents approached the education department
officials or took the matter to court

According to
NCPCR, the complainant’s name would be kept confidential. Cases of
violation of RTE could be reported to Henri Tiphagne, State
Representative for RTE in Tamil Nadu, National Commission for Protection
for Protection of Child Rights, No.6 Vallabhai Road, Chokkikulam,
Madurai-625002. The office could be reached at 0452 2531894, 2539520/
9994368540/9994368526.